Khairi Niazi

Khairi Niazi (14 May 1978-2 January 2009) was an al-Qaeda leader during the Iraq War.

Biography
Khairi Niazi was born on 14 May 1978 in Baghdad, Iraq to a family of Sunni Muslim Arabs. Niazi joined al-Qaeda during the Iraq War to fight against the United States-led coalition, and he fought against the US Marine Corps in Operation Shining Star in Baghdad in 2006. Niazi survived the operation, which was a US defeat, but he was killed in 2009 in anotehr clash with MNF-I forces.